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Old 11-02-2011, 03:05 AM  
DamianJ
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Originally Posted by ArsewithClass View Post
why not just type [email protected]
It's called obfuscation, Gary. If you put your email address on the internet in the proper syntax you will get spammed. Bots scrape sites looking for correctly formatted email addresses. If you obfuscate the address, the bots can't scrape it, but humans with a degree of intelligence will be able to 'read' it and work out what the content means.

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